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Download full textTakashi Yamashita; Wonmai Punksungka; Phyllis A. Cummins – Grantee Submission, 2022
This chapter discusses three main topics: (1) volunteer as a form of civic engagement, (2) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), and (3) basic skills including literacy, numeracy and digital problem-solving skills. Volunteering, STEM background, and basic skills are important social and economic indicators of societies. Yet,…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Citizen Participation, STEM Education, Educational Background
Rosen, David J. – Adult Literacy Education, 2020
In the technology solutions column of this special issue of Adult Literacy Education, that focuses on Broadening the Lens on Adult Literacy Education Outcomes, the author wants to challenge the field to expand the view of digital literacy. Of course, basic digital literacy skills must be included, but the field needs to look beyond to the digital…
Descriptors: Adult Students, 21st Century Skills, Technological Literacy, Adult Basic Education
Direct linkYamashita, Takashi; Zhang, Jing; Sun, Na; Cummins, Phyllis A. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Despite increasing demand in distance education, relatively little is known about the demographic and socio-economic characteristics as well as basic skill levels of adult distance education participants at the national level in the U.S. This study analyzed the U.S. data from 2012/2014 and 2017 Program for International Assessment of Adult…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Adults, Adult Education, Distance Education
Virtanen, Anne; Tynjälä, Päivi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
Although generic skills have received widespread attention from both policymakers and educationalists, little is known regarding how students acquire these skills, or how they should best be taught. Hence, the aim of this study was to identify what kinds of pedagogical practices are behind the learning of eight particular generic skills. The data…
Descriptors: College Students, Basic Skills, Skill Development, Constructivism (Learning)
Schech, Susanne; Kelton, Maryanne; Carati, Colin; Kingsmill, Verity – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Higher education institutions increasingly recognise the need to develop both disciplinary knowledge and soft skills to foster the employability of their graduates. For students in International Studies programmes, the workplace opportunities to develop soft skills relevant to their intended professions are scarce, costly and unavailable to many.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Global Education, Simulation, Basic Skills
Evaluation of Games in Games and Physical Activity Course Curriculum in Terms of Common Basic Skills
Inan, Mehmet; Ozden, Bülent; Dervent, Fatih; Küçüktepe, Coskun – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of the games in the "I am Playing Games" (IPG) compilation booklet that was used in the Games and Physical Activity (GPA) curriculum. 257 games in IPG compilation booklet were coded whether they had elements that would enable development of common basic skills or not. Common basic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Games, Physical Activities, Play
Mamedova, Saida; Sparks, Dinah; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conducted the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), a multi-domain adult skills assessment with an extensive background questionnaire, in 2012. PIAAC is a global effort to understand how individuals' education, workplace experiences, and other…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
Caviglia, Francesco; Delfino, Manuela – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2016
Active participation in the information society requires the ability to find some order in the chaotic nature of the Web and not to get lost within the endemic presence of inaccurate, misleading, biased and false information. This article presents an approach to Information Problem Solving (IPS)--that is, finding, understanding and assessing…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Basic Skills, Information Skills, Information Literacy
